Battlefield 3 will support a new feature where players can customize their dog tags — add signatures, etch their name and display some of their stats..
Karl Magnus Troedsson (Dice) announces Battlelog on the official BF3 blog:
Battlefield 3 Battlelog web destination – featuring powerful social tools, feeds and detailed player stats. Battlelog also lets you manage your friends lists, squad up, create platoons, use voice chat and follow your friends’ progress in real-time, and more. Battlelog will be available for the monthly fee of (drum roll)... zero dollars. We look forward to providing more information on these features in the near future!
Activision has remained silent about the details surrounding its premium Call of Duty service. Before today, the only details we knew about what is now called Call of Duty Elite was that it would be included in Modern Warfare 3, and would be an optional service. The in-game content is created by a studio named Beachhead, a studio that seemed to be created specifically for this purpose.
Call of Duty Elite will be comprised of free and paid content. The paid content will come in the form of new maps and other unspecified content. The free features will add an additional social element to MW3.
CoD Elite will have a built-in social network of sorts that will let players meet each other before jumping into matches. This feature is meant to link like-minded players together. Another free feature is an advanced stat tracker that examines your proficiency with certain weapons.
Robert Bowling (Infinity Ward's Creative Strategist) Tweets: COD ELITE is free, for all players, some paid aspects TBD. Absolutely NO fee to play MW3 multiplayer. Detailed reveal coming tomorrow AM.
*Update* 6/6/2011 Call of Duty Elite, Activision's attempt to make even more money out of the venerable shooter franchise, will go into beta on July 14. It'll be invite-only, and only Black Ops' multiplayer users will be considered. Source
PC Patch 1.09 • Added support for mods in preparation for the upcoming tools release. • Addressed various MP & Zombie exploits. • Improved memory utilization in MP. • Improved DLC filter in server browser – you can now hide any servers running content you do not own. • Corrected issue which sometimes required repurchase of emblems or clan tags on weapons. • Address some cases in which player could not receive Zombie invites. • Replaced RPG with Grim Reaper in Gun Game Wager Match. • Fine-tuned napalm and bombing-run damage indoors. • Prevented rare invulnerability issue. • Demolition bombs can no longer explode and be defused at the same time. • Spy plane now activates in One in the Chamber in all cases. • The “Sprint Kills” challenge for Steady Aim perk now rewards the player with the correct number of kills. • Addressed a rare issue where a hacked camera spike would not function properly if the hacker also had a camera spike that was destroyed. • Recording a clip with the speed mode for 2 cameras set to .1 will no longer increase in speed when switching perspectives back and forth. • Improvements to Zipline functionality when viewed in Theater mode. • Settings from custom games are all cleared and no longer carry over from one custom match to another. • Nova gas will now affect players that are standing over their tactical insertion. • Hardcore players who kill another teammate in Second Chance now lose the proper amount of points. • Calling in a Chopper Gunner immediately after getting shot down in a Gunship will no longer end the Chopper Gunner run prematurely.
PC Patch going live Approximately 5:30p PST on May 26th.
